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Guantanamo Boy
Anna Perera
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Description for Guantanamo Boy
Paperback. Khalid, a 15-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: YF. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children´s UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141326078
SKU
V9780141326078
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About Anna Perera
Anna Perera was born in London to an Irish mother and Sri Lankan father. She worked as an English teacher in two secondary schools in London, and later became responsible for a unit for excluded boys. She lives in Hampshire, England. Guantanamo Boy is her first teenage novel.
Reviews for Guantanamo Boy
This powerful and humane book shows that hatred is never an answer, and proves the pointlessness of torture and the danger of thinking of anyone as 'other.'
Nicolette Jones
Sunday Times
One of her greatest achievements is to make the frightening monotony of the two years he suffers so full of suspense.
Kate Kellaway
Observer ... Read more
Nicolette Jones
Sunday Times
One of her greatest achievements is to make the frightening monotony of the two years he suffers so full of suspense.
Kate Kellaway
Observer ... Read more